Bygone Models

All my life the only rifles that matter to me were made from blue steel and a nice chunk of walnut, within the last couple months i bought two Tupperware rifles.
One is a Steyr pro hunter in .308 and today just bought myself a Tikka t3x varmint in .243.
Must be the covid virus.
 
The only way plastic I own is an after market stock for my 10-22 cause the original wood stock wasn’t great!! All of the other rifles I own(not that many compare to most) are all walnut and blue! Only one doesn’t have open sights!!
 
I’m all for the old girls. Although some 70-80s had that high lacquer plastic spacer stuff going and that’s throughly revolting to me. Blued steel and oil finishes classic European lines
 
It’s a great time spending an afternoon with 12lb walnut blued 70’s 80’s varmint rifle off a cement bench. Sako Forester, Winchester model 70, Rem 700 BDL, Ruger 77V doesn’t matter. They don’t make them like that anymore.
 
Buckmastr said:
Yes I enjoy shooting nice old school blued steel and walnut too. Lots of deals on that type of stuff in the past ten years because most people chase lightweight rifles.
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I own only one firearm that isn’t wood and blued steel and it’s because I won it in a contest...lol
Nice tikka you hit the lottery with a stock like that on a moderately priced rifle.
 
Whitetail Junkie said:
I own only one firearm that isn’t wood and blued steel and it’s because I won it in a contest...lol
Nice tikka you hit the lottery with a stock like that on a moderately priced rifle.
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Thanks. That tikka came from a version they called grade 3. It was a bit more than the straight hunter model so I had to pay to win the lottery.

Plastic stocks really aren’t that bad performance wise. Remington kind of ruined the synthetic stock appeal with those ultra cheap flimsy (but lightweight and durable) plastic stocks they put on the last bunch of sps’.
Restocked they are a completely different rifle IMO.
 
Buckmastr said:
Thanks. That tikka came from a version they called grade 3. It was a bit more than the straight hunter model so I had to pay to win the lottery.

Plastic stocks really aren’t that bad performance wise. Remington kind of ruined the synthetic stock appeal with those ultra cheap flimsy (but lightweight and durable) plastic stocks they put on the last bunch of sps’.
Restocked they are a completely different rifle IMO.
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I never knew tikka once offered a higher grade with Better wood...I’ve seen some nice plastic stocks but none to me feel as good/warm as a nice chunk of wood.
 
Some of the older tikka t3 forest models came with exceptional wood. Free of charge if you were lucky.

Agreed re wood over synthetic. The Browning Abolt and the Winchester model 70 stocks were decent and stiff. But still plastic. No comparison to the feel of walnut.
 
mctrigger said:
I’m all for the old girls. Although some 70-80s had that high lacquer plastic spacer stuff going and that’s throughly revolting to me. Blued steel and oil finishes classic European lines
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I'm on the same page as you. I favor the European workmanship from older models of Sako, Tikka, BSA, Krico etc. Also, the older USA models, such as the Belgium Browning's, Winchester pre 64"s, and the German Weatherby Mark V.
 
track said:
Who truly loves the olden, classical, bygone, earliest models of firearms, over recent models. I honestly love the earliest by a long shot, pun intended.
Era in time would be post WW1 to 1990.
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Most of my guns are a "Shooting Collection", from 1873 to WW2. Steel & walnut perfectly fitted together. Max. velocity to blow a deer off it's feet
is not my choice. A big piece of slow moving lead does just as good a job. All @ modest ranges to suit the caliber.
 
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